Stockbridge Partners Llc decreased its stake in Visa Inc (V) by 15.57% based on its latest 2018Q4 regulatory filing with the SEC. Stockbridge Partners Llc sold 172,521 shares as the company’s stock rose 4.65% with the market. The hedge fund held 935,284 shares of the business services company at the end of 2018Q4, valued at $123.40M, down from 1.11M at the end of the previous reported quarter. Stockbridge Partners Llc who had been investing in Visa Inc for a number of months, seems to be less bullish one the $334.99B market cap company. The stock increased 0.49% or $0.74 during the last trading session, reaching $152.47. About 8.31M shares traded. Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) has risen 22.89% since March 14, 2018 and is uptrending. It has outperformed by 18.52% the S&P500. Some Historical V News: 11/05/2018 – Trump Administration Seeks to Tighten Student, Exchange Visa Oversight; 19/04/2018 – RUSSIA SAYS U.S. USING VISA `BLOCKADE’ TO EXERT PRESSURE: IFX; 23/03/2018 – Two more top Visa executives have exited the company – under very different circumstances; 24/05/2018 – VISA – ANNOUNCED STRATEGIC INVESTMENT IN YELLOWPEPPER, A MOBILE PAYMENTS PIONEER IN LATIN AMERICA; 09/05/2018 – Visa’s Craig McClure Joins The Chargeback Company; 24/05/2018 – Visa Makes Strategic Investment in YellowPepper to Accelerate Adoption of Mobile Payments and Tokenization in Latin America and; 06/03/2018 – Yahoo! UK: Exclusive: Visa waivers rarely granted under Trump’s latest U.S. travel ban – letter; 06/03/2018 – US News: Exclusive: Visa Waivers Rarely Granted Under Trump’s Latest U.S. Travel Ban: Data; 18/04/2018 – Visa Inc. Declares Quarterly Dividend; 24/05/2018 – Visa Makes Strategic Investment in YellowPepper to Accelerate Adoption of Mobile Payments and Tokenization in Latin America and the Caribbean

Parallax Volatility Advisers Lp decreased its stake in Microsoft Corp (MSFT) by 83.31% based on its latest 2018Q4 regulatory filing with the SEC. Parallax Volatility Advisers Lp sold 2.71M shares as the company’s stock rose 1.03% with the market. The institutional investor held 543,717 shares of the prepackaged software company at the end of 2018Q4, valued at $55.23 million, down from 3.26 million at the end of the previous reported quarter. Parallax Volatility Advisers Lp who had been investing in Microsoft Corp for a number of months, seems to be less bullish one the $878.47 billion market cap company. The stock increased 0.77% or $0.88 during the last trading session, reaching $114.5. About 773,999 shares traded. Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has risen 20.90% since March 14, 2018 and is uptrending. It has outperformed by 16.53% the S&P500. Some Historical MSFT News: 09/03/2018 – Ignition Partners Adds Former Microsoft CIO Jim DuBois and Former Amazon Executive and Datasphere CEO Satbir Khanuja as Venture Advisors; 12/04/2018 – TCG Members Infineon, Microsoft, and OnBoard Security to Host Security Solutions Workshop and Demonstrations at Internet of; 11/04/2018 – Solver’s BI360 Delivers Advanced Reporting and Budgeting for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central; 12/04/2018 – Ciena Remembers Longtime Board Member Berry Cash; 07/05/2018 – MSFT: Microsoft 365 sounds like it’s taking over Windows 10 as the operating system, or rather subsuming it as Windows becomes part of the cloud and edge. #MSBuild2018 – ! $MSFT; 11/04/2018 – WhiteHat Security Announces New Crash Course Series to Strengthen Application Security Expertise Among Developers and Security Practitioners; 07/05/2018 – Invoice2go partners with Microsoft to showcase a new way for small businesses to get paid faster; 26/03/2018 – AbacusNext Brings Private Cloud to Canada with Data Center Expansion and Microsoft Certification; 30/04/2018 – MICROSOFT CHAIRMAN, JOHN W. THOMPSON, JOINS LIGHTSPEED AS; 21/05/2018 – TREKSTOR Expands Business to the US: Primebooks Now Available in US Microsoft Stores

Analysts await Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) to report earnings on April, 24. They expect $1.24 EPS, up 11.71% or $0.13 from last year’s $1.11 per share. V’s profit will be $2.72B for 30.74 P/E if the $1.24 EPS becomes a reality. After $1.30 actual EPS reported by Visa Inc. for the previous quarter, Wall Street now forecasts -4.62% negative EPS growth.

Since November 2, 2018, it had 0 insider buys, and 5 selling transactions for $28.04 million activity. RICHEY ELLEN sold $11.34 million worth of stock. 2,252 Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) shares with value of $325,541 were sold by HOFFMEISTER JAMES H.

Stockbridge Partners Llc, which manages about $1.82B and $2.21 billion US Long portfolio, upped its stake in Booking Hldgs Inc by 19,075 shares to 102,301 shares, valued at $176.21 million in 2018Q4, according to the filing. It also increased its holding in Mplx Lp (NYSE:MPLX) by 540,000 shares in the quarter, for a total of 5.86 million shares, and has risen its stake in Amazon Com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN).

More notable recent Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) news were published by: Seekingalpha.com which released: “Kroger’s Smith’s stores nixes Visa credit cards – Seeking Alpha” on March 01, 2019, also Nasdaq.com with their article: “PayPal Stock Still Has Plenty of Room to Run – Nasdaq” published on March 13, 2019, Seekingalpha.com published: “Visa Is Rock Solid – Seeking Alpha” on February 18, 2019. More interesting news about Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) were released by: Seekingalpha.com and their article: “Visa Inc (V) Presents at Wolfe Research Fintech Forum Conference (Transcript) – Seeking Alpha” published on March 14, 2019 as well as Investorplace.com‘s news article titled: “Square Stock Faces Short-Term Pain and Long-Term Gain – Investorplace.com” with publication date: March 12, 2019.

Parallax Volatility Advisers Lp, which manages about $4.50B and $75.65 billion US Long portfolio, upped its stake in Wayfair Inc (NYSE:W) by 6,617 shares to 7,817 shares, valued at $704,000 in 2018Q4, according to the filing. It also increased its holding in Grubhub Inc (Put) (NYSE:GRUB) by 100,804 shares in the quarter, for a total of 101,900 shares, and has risen its stake in Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ).

Since October 26, 2018, it had 0 insider buys, and 8 sales for $58.46 million activity. 20,000 Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) shares with value of $2.15 million were sold by BROD FRANK H. $4.06M worth of stock was sold by Hogan Kathleen T on Thursday, November 8. Capossela Christopher C sold $1.12 million worth of stock.